Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite all the scare buying by consumers, retail inventories are the highest ever. The Commerce Department reported last week that at year's end store stocks stood at a record $16.1 billion v. $13.1 billion in 1949. Since then, merchants have been buying faster than the public...
...group could generally publish anything it wanted when it wanted without submitting it to the Administration; now it cannot. Under the new rules, organizations must also keep a complete membership list always on file at the Dean's Office, though some groups have protested that, with the current Red Scare hysteria, such a system might jeopardize the careers of individual members. The Student Council asked that all these regulations, plus another that forbids appearances on commercial radio and T.V. programs, be junked. The Faculty Committee chose to disregard all of the Council objections, even in those cases where...
...third baseman for the New York Yankees. "Big-league baseball conditioned me to hold up," said the "Golden Boy" who was paid a $50,000 bonus to sign with the Yanks in 1946. "I could look those profs in the eye and say: 'Brother, you can't scare me. I've been at the plate in Yankee Stadium with 80.000 fans screaming...
...freeze order. Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, considered the edict "premature" because the machinery needed to put the plan in operation is not yet ready. On the other hand, Malcolm P. McNair, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, said it should have come earlier to prevent the wave of scare-buying that has been going on and keep prices at a lower level. No mention was made of a price roll-back...
...Will scare the birdies, (and confusem...